October 14, 1992
Education Week, Vol. 12, Issue 06
Education
Social-Studies Educators To Develop Own Set of Standards
Bypassed by national efforts to set subject-matter standards in history, geography, and civics, social-studies educators are working on their own to develop standards for what students should know and be able to do in that subject.
Education
Los Angeles Taps Deputy as Interim Superintendent
The Los Angeles school board last week appointed Sidney Thompson, the deputy superintendent of the district, to be the interim superintendent until next July.
Education
Las Vegas Officials Mull Calls To Revise Busing Plan
Under pressure from black parents, school officials in Las Vegas, Nev., are moving to end a 20-year-old policy of busing black children out of neighborhoods on the west side of the city.
Education
Capital Digest
New federal rules require that special-education students have plans for post-school transition included in their individualized education plans by the time they are 16.
Education
Q & A: Researcher Analyzes When Libraries Keep Challenged Books
Most research on efforts to ban school-library books has focused on why books were challenged and whether they eventually were removed from library shelves.
Education
Heeding Constituents, NCATE Alters 2 Procedures
Responding to pressure from state policymakers as well as from colleges of education, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education last week adopted significant procedural changes on two fronts.
Education
Voters in Colo.'s Largest District Back 1st School-Tax Increase in 7 Years
Voters in Colorado's largest school district last week approved the first school-tax increase in seven years, a result that proponents of a statewide sales-tax increase for education see as boding well for their November ballot measure.
Education
Management Firm Finds Schools a Tough Sell
When John T. Golle walked into his home office one day recently, he had just logged 10,000 air miles visiting four school districts in three days, and he expected to be on the move again soon.
Education
Court To Review Two Church-State Rulings This Term
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to hear two cases that again give the Justices an opportunity to examine issues of separation of church and state in public education.
Education
Accord on Detaining Young Illegal Aliens Said Near
Officials of groups involved in immigrant-rights issues said last week that they were nearing agreement with the Immigration and Naturalization Service on substantial revisions in federal policies for dealing with children suspected of being illegal aliens.
Education
People News
The Columbus, Ohio, school board has chosen Larry Mixon, an assistant superintendent, as the district's interim superintendent.
Education
Publisher To Open Bookstores in Toys 'R' Us Stores
Move over, Barbie and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Make way for Poky Little Puppy and Dr. Seuss.
Education
Curriculum: Column One
Hoping to turn the 1992 Presidential debates into a national homework assignment for students, two nonprofit groups have put together a brief guide to critical debate-watching.
Education
National News Roundup
Contributions by corporations and their foundations to charitable causes totaled some $6 billion in 1991, with $2.4 billion going to educational causes, according to a report from the Council for Aid to Education.
Education
Several State School Chiefs On Clinton Campaign Trail
Several of the 16 state education chiefs who endorsed Gov. Bill Clinton two weeks ago have hit the campaign trail to stump for the Democratic nominee for President.
Education
State News Roundup
A panel of federal appeals-court judges last week overturned a U.S. District Court ruling and declared unconstitutional the men-only admissions policy at a Virginia military college because similar opportunities are not available for women.
Education
School-Desegregation Plans at Issue in Missouri Races
Federally mandated school-desegregation plans in Kansas City and St. Louis have become a key issue in Missouri political campaigns this fall.
Education
Educational-TV Measure Clears Congress
The Senate last week gave final Congressional approval to a bill authorizing federal grants for educational-television programming and training materials designed to improve the school readiness of young children.
Education
News Updates
A federal judge in Wisconsin has approved a settlement outlining the legal precautions the state and Milwaukee County must take before imposing sanctions in the state's pioneering "Learnfare'' program.
Ed-Tech Policy
Technology Column
The National Education Association should support efforts to connect elementary and high school classrooms to a national, fiber-optic telecommunications network and take other steps to bring teachers into the information age, according to a new report.
Education
Capital Update
Capital Update tracks the movement of legislation, the introduction of notable bills, and routine regulatory announcements.
Education
Despite Legislation's Death, Panel To Name Test Council
WASHINGTON--Despite the lack of a Congressional go-ahead, the National Education Goals Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject-area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last week.
Education
Efforts To Implement Welfare Law Found Thwarted
While states have taken "promising'' steps toward implementing the education components of the federal welfare-reform law, their efforts have been thwarted by inadequate funding, poor coordination of services, and uncertain goals, a new study concludes.
Education
Clinton's Search for Education Advice: 'Coals to Newcastle'
Asked in a January interview to name the experts whom he turns to for advice on education, Bill Clinton said he had no formal advisers. Instead, the Arkansas Governor rattled off a diverse list of educators and policy analysts whose work he said had influenced his own thinking.
Education
Teachers in Rhode Island District Back on Strike in Wake of Ruling
Teachers in Warwick, R.I., went on strike again last week after the state supreme court reversed a lower court's ruling that had allowed teachers to begin the school year under the terms of an expired contract.
Education
Books: New In Print
Child Development
Helping Children by Strengthening Families: A Look at Family Support Programs, by MaryLee Allen, Patricia Brown, & Belva Finlay (Children's Defense Fund, 25 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001; 93 pp., $12.95 paper). Spotlights successful local and statewide child-development programs, making recommendations for federal, state, and community-level action to create more family-support programs; includes a contact list of family-support programs highlighted in the report.
Helping Children by Strengthening Families: A Look at Family Support Programs, by MaryLee Allen, Patricia Brown, & Belva Finlay (Children's Defense Fund, 25 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001; 93 pp., $12.95 paper). Spotlights successful local and statewide child-development programs, making recommendations for federal, state, and community-level action to create more family-support programs; includes a contact list of family-support programs highlighted in the report.
English-Language Learners
Wilson Vetoes Richmond, Bilingual-Education Bills
Gov. Pete Wilson of California has vetoed bills that would have revived the state's bilingual-education mandate and restructured the debt of the troubled Richmond school district.
Education
District News Roundup
Milwaukee has made significant progress in desegregating its schools, but black student achievement and race relations in the city appear to have declined, according to a report issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Education
Barbie's Word Problems
The latest incarnation of Barbie, the londe bombshell of the doll world, is talking out of both sides of her pert plastic mouth and getting real people hot under the collar in the process.